card_zero

6 ms·

61.
by card_zero 23d ago
Taunted = vaunted?
62.
by card_zero 23d ago
Games
63.
by card_zero 24d ago
Possibly not an illusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnids_as_food
64.
by card_zero 24d ago
Yeah, I wanted to say that too. You can't (always) separate enjoying the craft from enjoying the praise. People too often talk about the value of an art object divorced from its provenance, as if you could measure its goodness with a m
65.
by card_zero 24d ago
It's primarily marketing for some mystic self-help shtick. You ask a question about your life, like in tarot, and a facilitator gradual reveals ambiguous answers until you agree that you had a revelation, like in tarot, and cross their
66.
by card_zero 25d ago
Wasn't there a recent HN post explaining that engineering a deadly-and-successful virus requires experimentation? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636906 Flagged, rather oddly. Hmm, you said array, I suppose th
67.
by card_zero 25d ago
True enough, but who was against technology?
68.
by card_zero 25d ago
This is being against interest in a specific technology. For example I could say "I think yo-yos are stupid". But the yo-yo is here to stay! The world must adapt to the yo-yo or be left behind, because we all think that yo-yos a
69.
by card_zero 26d ago
Great news everybody! I've invented infinite crap!
70.
by card_zero 26d ago
You're wrong about the ducks. But getting back to your previous wrong argument from 14 hours ago, you basically deny the meaning of terms like "uninspired", "insipid", and "derivative", on the grounds that
71.
by card_zero 26d ago
It's a book that works on many levels.
72.
by card_zero 26d ago
1. That's a misleading name for "take my secrets", 2. It's on by default, 3. Somebody says there's a second setting "don't train on my data", which is the real setting: https://news.ycombi
73.
by card_zero 26d ago
This was announced three days ago in Australia, the world's ban lab. Or at least the upcoming proposal of draft legislation was announced.
74.
by card_zero 26d ago
Downvotes might work as an abuse sponge, absorbing the impulse to make personal attacks. Other than that possible advantage, the downvote functionality seems contradictory to the concept of a discussion forum, I agree.
75.
by card_zero 26d ago
If, as you say, it doesn't matter that the AI company gets praise for somebody else's discovery, then it also wouldn't matter if the praise went to the academic. You apparently resent the academic for seeking praise instead o
76.
by card_zero 27d ago
I want the rest of you to have big phones, so that the concept of "mobile friendly websites" can die. This is my sole interest in phones. So I hope the Duo can be held comfortably in landscape orientation, but I guess in fact it c
77.
by card_zero 27d ago
You think that the liberty of capitalism enables selfish assholes to have influence, while under the constraints of communism the people with the influence are not selfish assholes.
78.
by card_zero 29d ago
Fantasy software: something that uses hooks to intercept internet requests from a specified other program, and sends them through USB to a corresponding phone app using a weird protocol, and the app relays them to the phone's internet
79.
by card_zero 29d ago
"Hating", no. He wanted to write books like The White Company. He could have done! But Holmes was more popular, so he asked a higher price, got paid, and continued with the Holmes. This is like a dialog with the public. It'
80.
by card_zero 29d ago
Them: I don't know what AGI is! But AI can't do this thing! So it's not AGI! You: I don't know what AGI is! But AI can do that thing actually! So it is AGI!
81.
by card_zero 1mo ago
> a novelist only writes a vampire book because that's what the market wants Not exactly. If you're in it for the money, don't be an artist (because it's not very effective). Having established that you're not
82.
by card_zero 1mo ago
You mean "... using a conventional computer"? (Excuse me if you didn't mean that.)
83.
by card_zero 1mo ago
One point is that being in an actual war changes the rules. If you're caught in a desperate fight for your civilization, you'll put civility on hold, because being polite wouldn't do any good and you're too busy being de
84.
by card_zero 1mo ago
It's a kind of shared fiction of an imaginary person's thinking, really. The author writes "now, I know what you must be thinking", and hopes the reader will agree "OK, close enough".
85.
by card_zero 1mo ago
I'm reminded of this exchange in Good Omens: Madame Tracy poked her head around the door. "Coo-ee, Mr. Shadwell," she said, giving Newt a friendly little wave. "A gentleman on the telephone for you. Hallo, Mr. Newton.&qu
86.
by card_zero 1mo ago
The thesis seems to be 1. We could refrain from getting offended when just buying coffee etc., and overlook low-key indications of political views, in order to cooperate, 2. We could avoid offending one another with confrontational exhibiti
87.
by card_zero 1mo ago
The BBC news site has a particular boner for slightly unusual moon appearances. If you search the site for moon, there's abundant stories on topics like "blood moon", "buck moon", "super new moon", "s
88.
by card_zero 1mo ago
Those are not that. The first two are people complaining about other people incontinently identifying text as AI, because it's annoying to listen to unreliable hunches and aspersions. The second two are complaining about AI detectors n
89.
by card_zero 1mo ago
You're saying it again! It's still not true. People think about the values that they're handed.
90.
by card_zero 1mo ago
Memes replicate and survive or perish like genes, but the environment they have to survive in is the human mind, and the threat that they have to overcome is being criticized. One way to survive this is by being a good idea. So some memes

More ›